NAWW Member Event: Shaping Your Experience for the Page—Turning Personal Experiences into Insightful, Moving Writing

Shaping Your Experience for the Page—Turning Personal Experiences into Insightful, Moving Writing

Attendees will learn:

1. Locating your writing’s occasion
2. Extracting insight from your experience
3. Using the first person skillfully
4. Using sensory imagery to keep the reader with you

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About Sheila Bender

Sheila Bender, writing teacher, poet, essayist, columnist, and book author, is now offering her know-how and ability to offer instruction through weekly online articles that encourage and help those who write from personal experience. Whether you want to break your writing out of its current form, revise effectively, generate more writing or facilitate the writing of others, you will benefit from Sheila’s weekly articles.

Sheila has been writing seriously since 1975 and I has taught writing since 1980. She published her first book about writing (Writing in a Convertible with the Top Down) in 1991 and have continued since then writing and publishing my poetry (Sustenance: New and Selected Poems), reviews (in Poet Lore, The Seattle Times and The World), and articles (Writer’s Digest Magazine and in Spring 2006, The Writer), as well as producing and publishing seven more books on writing, the newest entitled Writing and Publishing Personal Essays from Silver Threads in San Diego. Others include: Writing Personal Essays, Writing Personal Poetry, Writing in a New Convertible with the Top Down, A Year in the Life, and Keeping a Journal You Love. Her essays and poems appear online and in numerous North American literary magazines and anthologies.

As she wrote, her teaching expanded from local community education courses in writing to workshops at national writer’s conferences and university-sponsored classes. She served as curator for Seattle’s Poetry on the Buses program and as a judge for the Associated Writing Program and Writer’s Digest literary contests. She is a frequent presenter, instructor and panel member at conferences, most recently the San Francisco Jack London Writer’s Conference, Washington’s Whidbey Island Writer’s Conference and low-residency MFA program, the 2005 Conference on College Composition and Communication and soon, the 2006 Society of Southwest Authors’ Conference.

In 2005, she developed LifeJournal for Writers at www.lifejournal.com/writers with Chronicles Software. She has an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Wisconsin, an MAT in Secondary Education from Keane College and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington.

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